Ducks vs Devils in First Round? Bill Bender Predictions for 2025 CFB Playoff

June 26, 2025

By Bill Bender, The Sporting News: How much variation will there be in the second (and final?) installment of the 12-team College Football Playoff?

That’s one of the questions we have heading into the 2025-26 college football season. The CFP moved to a straight seeding model – which means an automatic qualifier among the five highest-ranked conference champions is no longer guaranteed a bye week. That likely will have an impact on the ACC, Big 12 and Group of 5 champions.

Will that mean the Big Ten and SEC get their wish? Those two conferences combined for seven playoff teams last year – and Ohio State won the first national championship of the 12-team era. Do the Buckeyes have enough coming back to make a run at back-to-back national championships under Ryan Day?

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College Football 2025: 12-team playoff predictions leading to Ohio State-Texas national championship | Sporting News

The seeding has changed for Year 2 of the 12-team playoff, which will affect how the tournament plays out this season.

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